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The Best Vines & Plants to Grow Alongside a Chicken Coop

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If you have a chicken coop at your barn or your backyard and you like to do gardening too, then this article is a must for you to read. Having the right plants to grow around your chicken coop can be beneficial to your chicken and to yourself as well. Your chickens can have some […]

8 Advantages of Keeping a Rooster in Your Coop or Yard

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Having some hens in your yard has a lot of advantages. They give you eggs in which you either sell them or consume for your daily needs. But having rooster or two in your flock has its advantages as well. Today we will discuss about the advantages of keeping a rooster in your chicken coop […]

8 Different Types of Chicken Feeds

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Humans and chickens have long existed on earth. We have domesticated the chickens for the human needs. But throughout the time, the way we feed chicken has not much changed. During the old times, people will just leave the chickens around and let the chickens feed themselves. Although some people still do that today, more […]

10 Factors to Consider to Harvest More Eggs

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A hen not laying an egg is a problem you will soon encounter anytime while raising them. One of the greatest joys of raising and taking care of chickens in our backyard is collecting the eggs from the chicken coops or nest boxes. What if you are expecting some eggs, but it turns out there […]

The Chicken Care Tasks of Poultry Farmers

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Raising a flock of chickens requires several tasks that need to be done on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Each and every one of them are essential so as to keep hens healthy, happy, and safe. Sad to say, not every poultry farmer is able to do them for reasons like they are too […]

How to Train Chooks to Use Nesting Boxes

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Either you raise chickens for food or for companionship, they will lay eggs. Their bodies are designed to produce eggs naturally. So, whether you like it or not, they will produce eggs. Normally, hens begin to lay eggs when they are around five or six months old. And depending on their breed, they can lay […]

7 Things Needed Prior to Raising Chickens

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To raise chickens at home is probably one of the best decision you have ever made. Not only is it enjoying; it is also rewarding and profitable. And now that you have finally set your foot onto the path of poultry farming, you might be asking what things you need to secure before you welcome […]

7 Essentials to Raising Healthy Chickens

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Whether you decide to get day-old chicks from the store or hatch your own in the yard, it is important that you know how to grow them into mature and healthy chickens. After all, it’ll be you who will first hand reap the perks. When starting, you can’t just go and buy a chicken coop […]

How to Deal with Mites and Lice in Chickens

How to Deal with Mites and Lice in Chickens-min

Are your chickens suffering from lice and mites? Regardless of what caused that, I know for sure that you will agree with me if I say these pests are very annoying, because when left untreated, they could quickly spread to others. And if that happens, expect things to get worse. Honestly, these parasites have long […]